{"id":1944,"date":"2007-01-05T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:36:42","slug":"watered-down-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/watered-down-objections\/","title":{"rendered":"Watered down objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.baptiststandard.com\/postnuke\/index.php?module=htmlpages&amp;func=display&amp;pid=5853\">The Baptist Standard<\/span> has an interesting article on the SBC stance towards drinking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A growing number of Baptists may have brought in the New Year by raising a glass of something a bit stronger than iced tea, some cultural observers speculate. Baptist attitudes toward alcohol consumption seem to be in transition, they insist.<br \/>\nConsider the spirited debate\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand debate about spirits\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsparked last summer when messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting approved a resolution opposing the consumption of alcoholic beverages\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand an amendment disqualifying imbibers from service as trustees of SBC entities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jews don&#8217;t recognize Jesus as the Messiah<\/p>\n<p>Protestants don&#8217;t recognize the Pope as the head of the Church<\/p>\n<p>Baptists don&#8217;t recognize each other in the beer store<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baptist Standard has an interesting article on the SBC stance towards drinking. A growing number of Baptists may have brought in the New Year by raising a glass of something a bit stronger than iced tea, some cultural observers speculate. Baptist attitudes toward alcohol consumption seem to be in transition, they insist. Consider the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/watered-down-objections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watered down objections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[4269,557,2799],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-alcohol","tag-baptists","tag-beer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-vm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}